Programme
Sunday 13 June
- 19:30 Welcoming Reception
(Karolinum Ceremonial Hall, Charles University)
Monday 14 June
- 8:00 Registration
- 10:00 Academic sessions begin
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University) - 18:00 Academic sessions end
- 19:00 Exhibition opening, wine reception
(Karolinum Exhibition Hall, Charles University)
Tuesday 15 June
- 9:00 Academic sessions begin
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University) - 18:00 Academic sessions end
- 19:00 Book launch, wine reception
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University)
Wednesday 16 June
- 9:00 Academic sessions begin
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University) - 18:00 Academic sessions end
- 19:30 Symposium Banquet
(Pilsen Restaurant, Municipal House, Prague)
Thursday 17 June
- 9:00 Academic sessions begin
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University) - 18:00 Academic sessions end
- 19:00 Book launch, wine reception
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University)
Friday 18 June
- 9:00 Academic sessions begin
(Philosophy Faculty building, Charles University) - 16:00 Academic sessions end
- 18:00 Vltava River boat cruise
- 20:00 Closing evening at a traditional Czech beerhouse
Saturday 19 June
Plenaries
Prof. Daniel Ferrer, (ITEM/École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
is a renowned scholar of Genetic Joyce studies. He is the co-editor, together with Derek Attridge, of Poststructuralist Joyce (1984), as well as, together with Vincent Deane and Geert Lernout, of the Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo editorial project (2003).
More recently, his wider interest in the genetic approach to not only Joyce´s but to much other modernist writing has been expressed in his Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-textes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University Press, 2004 (edited in collaboration with Jed Deppman and Michael Groden), as well as La textologie russe, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2007 (edited in collaboration with A. Mikhailov).
Prof. David Hayman, (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
is a nestor of Genetic Joyce studies mainly thanks to his highly influential studies on Joyce et Mallarmé (1956), The Wake in Transit (1990), as well as his editorial work – he is the editor of A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (1963) and, together with Michael Groden, Hans Walter Gabler, A. Walton Litz, and Danis Rose, the co-editor of The James Joyce Archive (1978). He has also written and edited books on Ulysses, e.g. Ulysses: The Mechanics of Meaning (1970, 1982), or, together with Clive Hart, James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical Essays (1974, 1987).
Apart from textual genetics, his interest has also focused on Joyce’s ongoing legacy for contemporary poetics and experimentation in the arts at large, as can be seen from his edited volume, In the Wake of the Wake (1978).
Prof. Marjorie Perloff, (Stanford University, USA)
is one of the foremost American critics of contemporary poetry, especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and avant-garde poets and relating it to the major currents of modernist and, especially, postmodernist activity in the arts, including the visual arts and cultural theory. Her best-known publications include The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981), Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1994), and 21st-Century Modernism: The New Poetics (2001).
Karen MacCormack is an experimental poet. She is the author of e.g. Straw Cupid (1987), Quirks & Quillets (1991), At Issue (2001), Vanity Release (2003) and Implexures (part one, 2003). Though she was not directly part of the Language Poetry movement, her work shows many affinities with it, in its use of disjunctiveness at a within-sentence and between-sentence level, and in her interest in the interrogation of cultural norms and ideologies through the skeptical reworking of "found" materials and genres. She currently works and lives in Buffalo, N.Y., together with her husband, Steve McCaffery.
Steve McCaffery is an experimental poet and literary critic. He came to Canada in 1968 to combine talents with bpNichol, Paul Dutton and Rafael Barreto-Rivera as the Four Horsemen, creating and performing innovative sound poetry. During the 1970s and 80s, he and Nichol were regular contributors to the poetic journal Open Letter. McCaffery's collection of critical writings, North of Intention (Critical Writings 1973-1986), stands as one of the earliest and best collections of essays about experimental writing, demonstrating and further exploring McCaffery's own affiliation with the practitioners of the Language Poetry and poetics. McCaffery currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst)
Tom McCarthy is an artist and writer. His first novel, Remainder, won the Believer Book Award 2007 and is currently being adapted for cinema by Film4. His semi-fictitious avant-garde 'organisation,' the International Necronautical Society, has published and exhibited widely, most recently using radio transmissions in Moderna Museet (Stockholm) and Hartware Medien Kunstverein (Dortmund). His new novel, which deals with the relationship between technology and mourning, will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010.